The 30 minute 6 plant aero build

[vandula]

sry, thought it was az, yea im asking you FF, what do u think?

 

[Damion5050]

Hey there I have a 3 foot by 19 inch area thats 4 foot tall I was wondering how many plants could fit in one of your systems, thinking about buying

 

[vandula]

matters on ur light setup. id say max 3, but the inner leaves will all be stunted in growth bc the foliage will overlap.

 

[FilthyFletch]

Vandula Im not sure I know which your talking about? do you mean the foam kinda lawn dripplines or the kind that have a slight mist on them? If those are what you mean they would clog pretty quick from the nute salts.Im thinking your talking about soaker lines made of neoprene..

 

[FilthyFletch]

Damion Id say you could do a 4-6 plant setup in there with like a 400 watt light max.Keep them small and toped and do a SOG style grow in there

 

[Damion5050]

thanks filth how much you think it would cost to have you send one my way a 6 plant.. I am in the process of making my own bubble cloner lol hope I do it right considering im not to mechanically inclined

 

[vandula]

FF, the misting system im talking about is a hose w. nodes of misting nozzles, it's meant to be plugged into a hose outlet. i want to hook this up to a water pump.

if i use liquid nutes will this still clog up the system. many of the submersible water pumps im looking at say theyre good in salt and fresh water.

 

[FilthyFletch]

Id have to see what your talking about.I have only seen the foam garden hose type mister lines at walmart and the holes are way to fin and nute salts buld up much eaier then ocean salt

 

[vandula]

yeah that's the one, i saw em at walmart and were a great price. so even if i use liquid nutes im still screwed? ive not bought anything yet.

 

[FilthyFletch]

yeah the neoprene garden hose stuff will clog from nutes.Also in aero units you will always use liquid nutes as supposed soluable powders cake and dont stay suspended enough in the res solution.You can get away with a litle powdered additives towards the end but have good filter bags and inline filters catching the bigger particles or you ll be screwed if misters get chunks in the lines then you ll have to disassemble in ahurry

 

[GiantEthiopian]

Hey ff, I just got done looking @ some root porn pics that were grown in an airo setup just like yours, and I was shocked.

1 plants roots were almost filling up half of the reservoir just a few weeks b4 harvest! it almost looked sooooo fake.

I just want to know, HOW on EARTH do you deal with that...?

If there were 4 plants in that pic i seen, the ENTRIE container would be filled, so that there would be NO way to clean/replace the misters etc...

It would look like a big tub of spaghetti!

Can you give me any tips on how to deal with all the roots that will be filling up the entire reservoir?

I also heard that there is little that you can even do to those crazy ass roots... i heard if you fuck with them, you will totally stunt the plant

 

[FilthyFletch]

The plants will fill the res up thats why I always advise not using too small a res tub bigger is always better.I like to lift my plants once a week to stop the roots from getting to tangled and twisted together and to help stop them from wrapping to much around the manifold this way its still possible to pick the entire lid up off the unit should you nheed to get to the inside workings.Thats why I always suggest filter bags to otherwise the roots get suckked into the pump impellor so its pretty much a must have item

 

[kearners]

thanks a lot dude this helped a lot, i have been looking into one of these for a while.. thanks again!!

 

[GiantEthiopian]

Thank you once again!! For some reason I am so scared to try this for my 1st grow after reading a little bit more....

I really don't want to loose all of my plants all due to root invasions, clogs, etc..

I will use hydro instead.

Stay blazed, and god bless

 

[vandula]

what's the best passive hydro system in your opinion FF?

 

[FilthyFletch]

I personally dont grow any kind of passive hydro as I dont have time to deal with those as they take to much work and my time.If I cant set it up on timers and be able to just take a few minutes a day to maintain it its not worth it for me.I like growing aero and flood tables mainly. These are the easiest and require the least amount of work from y years of trying pretty much all grow methods.

 

[vandula]

sounds good FF, thx, you've been a huge help to me and prob. 100s others here.

 

[Enigma]

Damn good read.

Pretty much the same thing I thought of.. maybe I saw this before.. either way.. I'm building one with a few tweaks after soil is done this go 'round.

Good job fletch!





Enigma

 

[Gmrpr7]

How much noise does the misting in one of these make? Do you think you can hear it if it's in a closed closet in the same room I sleep in? Hope it's not much more noise than a pretty large aquarium. I need my sleep LOL.

 

[InXanity]

I've been gathering the materials to build one of these. I have a couple questions to get your opinions on FF.

1 - I'm planning on 4 plants. What size rubbermaid container do you recommend?

2 - Lowe's sells these: Full Circle Mister/Spinner Would these work?

-InXanity